By scottgifford on

Hello,

I'm having some trouble using some CCK form fields, like the date picker dropdown and checkboxes, working with XML-RPC services. In the simplest example, when I load a node with node.load then save it with node.save, I get a validation error. It seems that node.load returns the data in its native format, but node.save expects it to be formatted like a Web form. If I change the fields to simple text fields, everything works fine, except of course that the Web GUI is crappy.

I reported bugs against CCK and Services, but though I would ask here too in case anybody had ideas. Bugs are here:

Does anybody have any suggestions for making this work?

Thanks!

----Scott.

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thompcha commented

Hello Scott,

I'm curious if you ever finished your script to address this issue. If so, would you mind sharing it?

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scottgifford commented

Hi thompcha,

I wrote some custom code using the Services module, which simply took a consistent set of fields from the RPC request and converted them to a node for saving, and took a node and converted it to a consistent set of fields for loading. Basically just some Service RPC calls, and some mundane code for mapping fields between the two different data structures.

Hope this helps!

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stillfinder commented

Hello!
I have some problem with checkboxes and xmlrpc via services module. I write some application in C# and can't to send checkbox data to services. Maybe someone know in what format data must be sended?

With Date field I sending like this and all work perfect:

private static void AddArrayDateToNode(string fieldname, DateTime dt, XmlRpcStruct node)
        {
            XmlRpcStruct sMainDate = new XmlRpcStruct();
            XmlRpcStruct sDate = new XmlRpcStruct();
            sDate["year"] = dt.Year.ToString();
            sDate["month"] = dt.Month.ToString();
            sDate["day"] = dt.Day.ToString();
            sMainDate["value"] = sDate;
            object[] oDate = new object[] { sMainDate };
            node[fieldname] = oDate;
        }

So we have an array:

-		["field_exclusive_from"]	{object[1]}	
		Key	"field_exclusive_from"	object {string}
-		Value	{object[1]}	object {object[]}
-		[0]	Count = 1	object {CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcStruct}
-		["value"]	{CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcStruct}	
		Key	"value"	object {string}
-		Value	Count = 3	object {CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcStruct}
-		["month"]	"6"	
		Key	"month"	object {string}
		Value	"6"	object {string}
-		["year"]	"2011"	
		Key	"year"	object {string}
		Value	"2011"	object {string}
-		["day"]	"30"	
		Key	"day"	object {string}
		Value	"30"	object {string}

Thanks to all for any help.

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stillfinder commented

Hi! I found solution for problems with cck fields (checkboxes and date time picker) and xml-rpc services node.save function

datetime cck field you need to send in following format:
[field_date] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[value] => Array
(
[year] => 2014
[month] => 7
[day] => 7
)
)
)

and CheckBoxes in this format:
[field_b_material] => Array
(
[value] => Array
(
[1991] => 1991
[1985] => 1985
)
)

Where 1991 is ID of taxonomy term.

If someone interested for C# code I can to send it.